“I’m perplexed because I don’t know exactly why they do it. It is clearly seen that there is no political motivation nor any other kind at the time of writing those jokes. Are just jokes. Nothing more.” So perplexed is shown Cassandra during a telephone interview with RT after his name has jumped to all the national media this week.
At the beginning of January, the young man, 21 years of age, received a telegram to come immediately to the central Court of Instruction number 5 of Murcia. “I meet with the opening of an oral trial, which still has no date, and with the written accusation of the prosecutor that asks for two and a half years in prison, plus three probation officers, and eight-and-a-half of total disqualification,” he explains.
The prosecutor’s office accuses Cassandra of the offence of “humiliation to the victims of terrorism” for a series of jokes posted on his Twitter account, between November 2013 and January 2016, and about general franco Carrero Blanco, killed by ETA in 1973.
Made jokes on Twitter about historical figures
however, the legal problems of the young, dating back to August of last year, when he received a press release for that out to the Court: “I was very scared by everything what it could mean and the sentences are often ordered in these cases. But when I declared, in September, and I saw that they were just jokes of Carrero Blanco, I thought that what archivarían, and that the thing would not go over, until that January has past all of this.”
Cassandra is studying second of History in the University of Murcia, and ensures that their jokes at the network parodying historical figures were common on his Twitter. “What was with all sorts of characters, special characters related to the story, because it’s what I study in the career. And when, in one lesson we gave some character or era that to me was interesting, he spoke of that character on Twitter, whether it was in the key of humor, the key would be to give my opinion of the topic, or simply to retell the historical event or the life of the character,” he explains.
however, in the case of Carrero Blanco, his jokes have been analyzed by the office of the prosecutor as “serious messages glorifying terrorism“. The first tweet that picks up the car from the prosecutor’s office dates back to November 20, 2013: “ETA promoted a policy against official cars combined with a space program”.
A month later, in December, I made a parody relating to the assassination of general franco with the film: “Movie: ‘three meters above the sky’. Production: ETA Films. Director: Argala. Protagonist: Carrero Blanco. Genre: space Race”.
“deleted It all for fear of what might happen”
He was followed by others as the “Kissinger gave Carrero Bank a piece of the moon, ETA paid a trip to it“, published in April 2014, or the last one that appears in the car, of January 16, 2016, entitled “20D”, where it included a photo of an astronaut with the face of general franco.
The tweets no longer appear in your profile, because in August, when he received the first communication from the Court wiped out all the jokes: “Not only of Carrero Blanco, but any thing that I think that someone could find offensive, whether they were historical characters, jokes from Atletico or any other thing. Deleted it all for fear of what might happen,” he says.
it is Not for less. In the last few months there are several causes open against tweeters by the mere fact of expressing your opinion or a joke about some topics that it seems that are still taboo for the Spanish authorities. However, in most of the cases, the causes are finally filed, although many users of social networks are now afraid of not being able to use these channels as a means of free expression and opinion.
“Yes, I have been told that it is very likely that this won’t end up in nothing, but the scare I did not remove anyone. There is the accusation of the prosecutor, who asked two and a half years, which is like entering prison, but does not have a history,” says Cassandra.
Since you reported the car of the public prosecutor’s office in its Twitter account, which has more than 7,000 followers, your message has been retuiteado to 19,000 times and has over 9,000 ‘likes’. In addition, the expressions of support in the network have been constant throughout the week.
“Several associations for the freedom of expression have given me their support and have made statements to my favor. And also public figures – the deputy of CKD – Gabriel Ruffian or -the presenter – Andreu Best. And people do not public, a lot of support,” he concludes.
María Jesús Vigo Pastur
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